Feminist EducationBooks

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1924 Bengali novella centers a women-run school and welfare institution, asking how education, work, and mutual aid can build public life without pretending that reform is a frictionless utopia.

Andrea N. Baldwin reads the US university through Black feminism, affect, and decolonial theory, showing how inclusion coexists with institutional indifference and developing shade as a critical method.

Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.

Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.

Through the making of Vectors and Scalar, Tara McPherson asks whether feminism can inhabit databases, interfaces, collaborative labor, and software architecture - not only content.

Through biography, letters, poetry, and student writing, this collection reconstructs Savitribai Phule’s anti-caste pedagogy and asks why her thought was excluded from national and feminist histories.

Kancha Ilaiah’s illustrated book for young readers revalues knowledge devalued by caste; Durgabai Vyam’s art is integral to its argument.

A Latina feminist collective uses testimonios to connect life stories, academic institutions and collaborative knowledge without erasing differences.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1905 feminist science-fiction story turns gendered access to education, public space, and science into a speculative experiment - and asks whether knowledge will serve everyday life or militarized power.

Published in Philadelphia in 1887, Pandita Ramabai's English-language book examines childhood, marriage, and widowhood for high-caste Hindu women, and makes self-reliance, education, and locally grounded women teachers central to reform.